Spotify will not ban AI-made music, says boss
The boss of Spotify says he has no plans to completely ban content created by artificial intelligence from the music streaming platform.
Earlier this year the platform pulled a track featuring AI-cloned voices of the performers Drake and The Weeknd.
Daniel Ek told the BBC there were valid uses of the tech in making music - but AI should not be used to impersonate human artists without their consent.
He said using AI in music was likely to be debated for "many, many years".
Mr Ek, who rarely speaks to the media, said that he saw three "buckets" of AI use:
tools such as auto-tune which improve music, which he believed were acceptabletools which mimic artists, which were notand a more contentious middle ground where music created by AI was clearly influenced by existing artist...
